Brandie

“Ultimately, an anointing is an acknowledgment. It’s a way to speak to someone who is suffering, and without words or platitudes or empty solutions, say, this is a big deal, this matters, I’m here. In a world of cure-alls and quick fixes, true healing may be one of the most powerful and countercultural gifts the church has to offer the world, if only we surrender our impulse to cure, if only we let love do its slow, meandering work.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“To belong to someone—I didn’t know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that’s all I’ve ever wanted. To really be somebody’s, and to have them be mine.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Billy Graham once said, “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge, and my job to love.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
― Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible